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I mean the us dwarfs other english speaking countries

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk -1 points 46 minutes ago
[-] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 3 points 44 minutes ago

135 million english speakers is less than 300 million

[-] imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 36 minutes ago

Mr Blott really really really likes to denigrate Americans. Don't rain on his parade

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 26 minutes ago

This is why:

The US has more allocated IPv4 addresses and more users per allocated IPv4 address than any other country, by wide margins - and IPv6 adoption is not that widespread yet. It is entirely rational to assume that an English-speaking person on the Internet is from the US, given no other information.

reference

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 27 minutes ago

its just the loudest voices that seem to drive the world.

[-] Geobloke@lemm.ee 1 points 28 minutes ago

It does make it fun to stir the pot

[-] Henry@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 hour ago

Don't be so self-involved. Try visit China for once and you will get sick of the word "China", it's literally in everything there :), like communist party's intelligence service :)

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 7 points 2 hours ago

I mean, we did invent this cursed network. It's our job to ruin it.

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

One day, we will shitpost our way to freedom

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 16 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

To be fair, the US has the largest number of English-speakers of any country in the world. As a first language, it has five times as many native English speakers as second place (the UK). It also has one of the highest Internet penetration rates in the world, meaning most of those English-speakers are also Internet users.

The US is a single country that is three-quarters the population of the entire continent of Europe, and nearly all of its inhabitants speak English and use the Internet. So yes, if you pick a random user on an English social media page, odds are very good that person is an American. If you were to guess any random English-speaking Internet user's nationality, "American" is the best possible guess. But go on a Spanish language forum or a French language forum and nobody will assume you're American.

Consequently, Americans generate the majority of English-language Internet content.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 9 minutes ago

Americans generate the majority of English-language Internet content.

Doubt.

There are 1.3 billion people who use English on the internet as a first or second language.

[-] pixelscript@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The more egalitarian principle would be to not assume. I won't deny that. People from more minority locales have every right to be upset at being marginalized.

But at the same time, whenever I read passive aggressive comments on socials from residents of crown countries or from EAASL people around the world bitching about US defaultism as if people are doing it just to be ignorant dicks, I can only think to myself, "Uhh, hello? What do you think the demographics of this space were? What did you expect?"

Americans are hardly the majority of the world's English speakers, but for all the reasons you listed, they tend to remain a massive plurality, if not an outright overwhelming majority, of any mainstream online English language platform. No, that's not a license to perpetuate US defaultism. But like... read the room, people. Your good fight is far more uphill than you seem to think it is.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 hours ago

I completely understand the sentiment.

I also understand the sentiment that the internet is effectively a US invention dating back at least to ARPAnet.

I guess what I'm suggesting is: can't we all just get along? At least we can now all communicate with each other.

[-] wieson@feddit.org 4 points 49 minutes ago

We are trying to get along. We are already speaking English, which is a massive step in your direction. US commenters and posters don't even bother to convert to kilometres or something. Or the worst: write about something that happened in AK as if everyone knows postal shortages of the US.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 33 minutes ago

The crazy irony is that those from outside the US probably know way more than those in the US, in terms of stories about Alaska.

No hate here. There will be ups and downs.

At the end of the day, I'm happy to communicate with you.

[-] imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 40 minutes ago

Don't ever talk about kilometres in here. Are you trying to spark an international incident?

FWIW ich habe Deustch gelernt. Aber ich habe die meistens vergessen ๐Ÿ˜”

[-] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 35 minutes ago

Dein Deutsch klingt richtig gut ๐Ÿ˜„

[-] imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 28 minutes ago

Danke schon ๐Ÿ™ƒ

[-] ealoe@ani.social 1 points 1 hour ago

network invented in America look inside Americans

How could this have happened?

[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago

Haha. Like anyone lives outside the US

[-] slickgoat@lemmy.world 23 points 7 hours ago

I'm from Australia and don't mind engagement with the (mostly) US content.

Let's face it, the US election is the most interesting event on the planet anyway.

[-] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

Glad everyone else is enjoying the show at least. Half of us here are terrified we're about to lose the country to maniacal egotists with a penchant for a bit of racism and monarchy.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

oh god, no

I find a squirrel climbing a tree a more interesting event

[-] slickgoat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Not to worry, I'm sure that there are websites around that cater to your squirrel tastes

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 7 hours ago

also one of the most concerning ones

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 5 hours ago

My favorite answer when internet Nazis asked "How could the Nazis have won?" used to be "Be America."

It's not as funny anymore. They listened.

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

I hear you and am guilty of it myself. I feel like it's due to the anonymous nature of the internet. I think everyone immediately falls into the category of "peer" before putting a touch more thought into who the actual person (bot/ai) is that wrote the reply. Add that to the fact that most Americans see themselves (as a country) as the king of the world.

Maybe you can try typing with an accent, but I think that'd probably just be seen as a racist American.

[-] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

As someone outside the U.S., what is your default persona for anonymous/pseudonymous users until you know more about them? Just curious. Like, if you don't have any information about them, do you read the words in the voice of a person just like you?

[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

I default to everyone sounding like Macho Man Randy Savage.

[-] dragonbringerx@lemmy.world 1 points 57 minutes ago
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